A COVID-19 tracker using the corona.lmao.ninja API

This is a COVID-19 tracker for Linux, allowing you to track, review and save statistics for your country, others or worldwide.

The data files are retrieved from corona.lmao.ninja which in turn receives its data from the Johns Hopkins University over at GitHub. Basically every application uses these, and I am also cross-verifying this. So far all the data appears consistent, although the stats from this program are more detailed than most others.

I wrote this application mostly to get as much data about the COVID-19 outbreak as possible and try to present it in a clean manner. I hope you'll enjoy using it too.

Dependencies

This application depends on jq to parse the JSON output from corona.lmao.ninja, and bc to run some calculations. Most distributions provide these programs from their repositories.

Installation

You can clone this repository to your computer using git clone https://git.ghnou.su/ghnou/cv. Afterwards you can run cv directly from it, without needing to install it. If you would like to install it, you can copy the program to /usr/local/bin or ~/.local/bin.

From the cloned repository you can run the application using ./cv [country], e.g. ./cv Belgium. For worldwide stats you can use ./cv without arguments. Short country codes are also supported if you don't want to type the country out entirely. As such ./cv be would work too.

Data Collection

This program does not track any personal data or contact my servers to function. You can read the source code to confirm this.

The API responses from corona.lmao.ninja are saved to your local machine for subsequent data retrievals in ~/Documents/cv. This could be used to review stats from earlier days, and I'd like to implement a time-series view using these in the future.